Possibly because Námo shows himself to be a pitiless character who does not understand what it is to be human. That kind of personality does tend to show, and I am sure the Elves felt it.
- a little fluff is good in everyone's life now and again.
Only if it is balanced. In a good story you will get times of gentleness and softness and at the other extreme, horror, grief and death. I'm not sure I have enjoyed any story, published or fanfic that does not include a wide range of events from the sublime to the terrible.
If you find my input 'quite' valuable, I suggest you investigate the world of profic more deeply. You'll probably consider their input 'extremely' valuable, because they're 'real' writers and some are publishers also, but they'll give the same advice.
When you work on your OFC, don't fall into the trap all new writers do, which is to self-insert. Every character we write has something of us in them, because it is hard to write about people who we cannot empathize with in some way. If characters are utterly alien, there's no way for us to connect. But they could not be exactly the same as us. Very few authors can get away with a total self-insert, as it is too obvious, and seen as very lazy writing.
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Date: 2012-03-24 11:13 am (UTC)Possibly because Námo shows himself to be a pitiless character who does not understand what it is to be human. That kind of personality does tend to show, and I am sure the Elves felt it.
- a little fluff is good in everyone's life now and again.
Only if it is balanced. In a good story you will get times of gentleness and softness and at the other extreme, horror, grief and death. I'm not sure I have enjoyed any story, published or fanfic that does not include a wide range of events from the sublime to the terrible.
If you find my input 'quite' valuable, I suggest you investigate the world of profic more deeply. You'll probably consider their input 'extremely' valuable, because they're 'real' writers and some are publishers also, but they'll give the same advice.
When you work on your OFC, don't fall into the trap all new writers do, which is to self-insert. Every character we write has something of us in them, because it is hard to write about people who we cannot empathize with in some way. If characters are utterly alien, there's no way for us to connect. But they could not be exactly the same as us. Very few authors can get away with a total self-insert, as it is too obvious, and seen as very lazy writing.